Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

You know that feeling when you have 50 things to do but your brain refuses to start any of them?

16 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston talks about task paralysis, the feeling when you have dozens of things to do but can't start any of them. She suggests beginning with tiny tasks, even 30-second ones, to build momentum and break through the freeze.

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You know that feeling when you have 50 tabs open in your brain, or maybe even in your computer, and it's so hard to just get started, but you keep opening another tab and another tab and another tab? Well, what we here are doing at IndieHive is helping you be able to start on those tabs, because sometimes that's the problem. It's not about being motivated or unmotivated, it's about actually getting started. And in our community, we're here to help you start, whether it's just to say 1, 2, 3, go, or how did it go, and celebrate those things that you are achieving and accomplishing. Because you know what? Even a 30-second task should be celebrated because then it starts helping your brain say one tab down, next one to go.